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- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
There's an old fable in which a scorpion asks a frog for a piggyback ride across a river. The frog fears getting stung along the way, but the scorpion argues that stinging the frog would be fatally stupid; the frog would die and sink and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
upstarts like Uber and Zipcar are making it easier (and less expensive) to find alternatives to car ownership. Self-driving cars, which will one day become part of the rental/cab fleet, will be another impetus to put old Betsy up on the rack once and for all. Need a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
and revolutionized millions of Americans' lives. Riding the wave of the Model T's success, Ford Motor Company became the undisputed leader of this young market and by the early 1920s, it was producing 60 percent of all the motor vehicles... View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
of contract. "And there are usually financial incentives attached: Career prospects and bonuses ride on this contract—incentives for hitting the targets amount to as much as 97 percent of a U.S. manager's annual salary. "There's... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
baseball players high on that list. Gazette: Sports gambling is now legal in most states. Massachusetts is expected to begin allowing it in early 2023. When people have money riding on games, they tend to pay closer attention to that... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
when. With facial recognition and infrared cameras, there can be time series data collected from your temperature and probably what was in the breaths you exhaled, captured over weeks and years, as you enter vestibules and ride... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
company badly needs a jolt of energy and expertise to grow and to resuscitate its declining stock price. The chief executive who promoted Barton is hopeful but hard-nosed; and Barton's IT group—while talented and tech-savvy—is impatient, even borderline dysfunctional.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
Developments in the Postwar Period,” in A. B. Smith (ed.), Competitive Distribution in a Free High Level Economy and Its Implications for the University (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1958), pp. 1-25 at pp. 17-18. Reader's Respond: Is Amazon View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
cognitive referent in the market. So they ended up actually undermining their own performance even while they helped the market take off.” The successful firms focused first on trying to solve a problem and then getting attention for their solution. “These firms ended... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
rear of the door rather than the front. THE VERDICT: The judges liked the transformative idea of selling the riding experience rather than the driving experience, but thought the team could have pushed further. (“It wasn’t fully... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
like." Yet as car manufacturers, tech companies, and ride hailing services move forward with plans for deploying AVs, widespread deployment has been slow, primarily because AVs face a huge challenge: Many people are uneasy about... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
whether it's learning algorithms or derivatives or parenting or riding a bicycle." "One of the things we find is that if you ignore [B players] long enough, they begin to see themselves as low performers," DeLong said.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
compatibility issues or nutrition questions). But here is the problem retailers face with this strategy: the opportunity for free riding is enormous. Customers can easily use the showroom as a place to receive expert advice, then turn... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
air.” Two critical questions, posed by Hernan Saenz and Dunigan O’Keeffe of Bain and Company, can help organizational leaders frame their thoughts about how to survive in the present and position their companies to thrive in the post-pandemic future—whatever that may... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
the storm. For seasoned leaders, the most applicable are Lessons #5 and #7, "Never waste a good crisis" and "Go on offense: focus on winning now." So often the go-to strategy for veteran leaders when a crisis strikes is to buckle down and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
Wharton School as well as Columbia Business School’s Oded Netzer and Nachum Sicherman to develop the model that identifies routine users and their value. Not all rides are routines To track how targeting routines may work, the authors... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
Credit: Nicolas McComber Uber’s roller coaster ride from ride-sharing pioneer to shunned bad boy should be a lesson to other disruptive startups: Fighting hard is good, while fighting unfairly loses you respect, customers, and perhaps... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
money when those shocks occur. “They should be less concerned about that, because they can ride out those waves,” says Viceira. Thus, for investors looking beyond a 10- to 20-year time frame—including individuals saving for retirement,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
capital. Would it be a better idea to ride the wave of globalization and try to get acquired by a multinational corporation? Or should the firm remain privately owned and focus its growth in Africa? After all, he noted, markets beyond... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
rising cost, as manifested in violations of covered interest rate parity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51348 Harvard Business School Case 917-539 Yushan Bicycles: Learning to Ride Abroad Yushan... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel